Graduate Students

CUA graduate students in Politics are making a strong impact in scholarship, public engagement, and teaching. Their work spans a variety of philosophical and methodological perspectives. Click here to find selected references to their recent work.

Academic Interests:Ancient Political Philosophy; Early Modern Political Thought (Hobbes through Kant); the works of Eric Voegelin; Religion & Politics; Political Ideology; International Political Theory; Consciousness and Personhood

Dissertation: "The State of Nature as the Moral Foundation for Political Society: Kant's Contribution to Contract Theory and its Application to Theories of International Relations"

Academic Interests: The relation between faith, reason, law and political power in contemporary political theory (including the works of Eric Voegelin, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, Jacob Taubes, Erik Peterson and others).

Academic Interests: Free speech and academic freedom; Constitutional Law, Law and
Politics, American Political Thought, Classical Political Theory, Modern Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Literature and Politics

Dissertation: "State, Community, and Individual: Robert Nisbet and the Freedom of Association in American Constitutionalism"